Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

Hi all!  Been real busy with the holiday stuff, professional and personal.  Good news, I have my holiday cards finished and we are going to have a ton of great shows over the holidays, pre-recorded, original stuff.  A treat for you!

So with holiday cheer in the air, here's a quick note on the evil SOB that is our former Vice President, Dick Cheney.

The disgusting display he preformed on Meet The Press this last Sunday was beyond words.  The coward has hidden behind 9/11 when anyone ever questioned his actions, and he continues to trample on the dead with his invoking of 9/11 victims to justify torture.  He used 9/11 victims to validate the killing of an innocent man, a man who died of exposure after being beaten and chained to the wall.  An innocent man died under the guidance of American foreign policy, and Cheney is proud of it.  The reality: under the 'leadership' of Cheney, we probably did a lot worse under the shadow of the Stars and Stripes.

At one point, Chuck Todd asked the jerk, "didn't we prosecute the enemy when they water boarded our guys during WWII?" That fact punches a huge hole in Dick Cheney's validation argument.  When we tortured, we were following in the footsteps of the Nazis, not the Founding Fathers.  Cheney did what he always does when he can't answer something, he bloviated and screamed "How dare you," at Todd. He insisted it was out of line to bring up such a comparison, and by proxy implied our water boarding was far more dignified and classy then when others did it to our guys.

Cheney then hid behind the "these guys are bad people" defense.  No one is doubting the actual guilty parties are bad guys.  I think we all agree on that, but weren't the Nazis, Italians and Japanese all bad guys in WWII?  They did mass execute the Jewish people and there was that whole surprise destruction of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, yet we never stooped to an actual US policy of torturing the enemy (internment camps were bad enough).  These extremists we are fighting in the Middle East, and worldwide, are the latest incarnation of the "bad guy," but by torturing, we have now lost the moral high ground.  We have become no better than them, wallowing in their gutter slime, even torturing the wrong people.  But at least Dick Cheney has found a happy home in the filth.

I worked with the late John Lundell when I was reporting traffic.  John was far right on the political spectrum.  When Minnesota lawmakers were having the discussion about Carry and Conceal, John bragged it was the best thing that could ever happen.  He insisted Carry and Conceal would end all crime in Minnesota, and when I called him on that outrageous claim, he then threw out the most preposterous scenario, ever(!), to try to validate carrying a concealed weapon. "Matt, what happens if terrorists have taken your kid's daycare hostage and they are holding your son, with a gun to his head.  You'd want a loaded weapon then, wouldn't you?  Are you a coward Matt?  Are you just going to let them shoot your son in the head?"

I really liked John, and I miss him, but that was the most insane argument I've ever heard.

If, to validate your actions or opinions, you have to wrap yourself in the worst moments of American history, or story lines so outrageous that even the Die Hard movie series would think are unbelievable, you clearly can't see how extreme your actions and opinions really are.

Dick Cheney, you are a disgusting pig of a man.  Your blood lust and blood money, all hidden behind your fake 9/11 piety, are the true legacy you will be remembered by.  You are a horrible human being.

Happy Holidays!